2008 Beijing Olympics tickets go on sale

(Agencies)
Updated: 2007-04-15 11:21

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More than 7 million tickets went on sale Sunday for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, organizers said.

Seventy-five percent of the tickets are for domestic sale and the rest are for sale outside of China, officials of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games said.

Wang Wei, executive vice president and secretary general of the event's organizing committee, repeated earlier statements that tickets were going to be affordable to the general public.

"The ticketing process will be conducted in the most efficient, fair and open manner possible and will follow internationally accepted practices," Wang was quoted as saying in a statement.

Organizers said tickets in China will be distributed over three phases. For events that are oversubscribed, the recipients of the tickets will be picked by random selection, the committee said.

For tickets outside China, responsibility for distribution will be on the respective national Olympic committees or their designated agents, organizers said.



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